Add to that that the Germans were masters of flak suppression … which is a nice way of saying ‘drop frags on exposed flak gunners who are hanging about among piles of explosives and vehicles filled with gasoline’.

In both cases the hollow point target bullet blossomed in its puncture of skull bone and spun sideways, whimsically, as it plowed through brain matter, then exited in a horrendous gusher of blood, gray stuff, and bone frags, above an eye in one case, below the other eye in the other, cracking the face bone like a pie plate.